Direct Dial: (215) 320-2073
E-mail Address: ecattell@hollsteinkeating.com

Practice Areas: Maritime Law; Insurance Coverage; Maritime Finance; Fisheries

Ed is a founding Shareholder and the Secretary/Treasurer of the law firm of Hollstein Keating Cattell Johnson & Goldstein PC. His professional practice is concentrated in maritime law, particularly in marine insurance, marine finance, and maritime corporate and regulatory areas. 

Ed was born in Camden, New Jersey. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree, with honors, from the United States Merchant Marine Academy, he was issued a Marine License as 3rd Mate, Oceans, any tonnage, subsequently raised to Second Mate and commissioned as an Ensign, USNR, completing Reserve Service as a Lieutenant in 1976. Following graduation from the Academy, he sailed in the United States Merchant Marine.

Previously, Ed was a partner of Clark, Ladner, Fortenbaugh & Young, of Philadelphia, and Cherry Hill, NJ, since 1983. From 1986 through November 1996, Ed was the senior resident partner in the firm’s Cherry Hill, New Jersey office.  From 1975 through 1983, he was an associate attorney with the firm.

Education

• Rutgers School of Law (J.D., with honors, 1975)
• United States Merchant Marine Academy (B.S., Nautical Science, 1970)

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey
• New York
• United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• United States Court of Appeals for the Third and Fourth Circuits
• United States Supreme Court

Membership

• Camden County, New Jersey Bar Association
• Philadelphia Bar Association: Chaired the Sub-Committee on Admiralty Law, drafting the first set of Local Admiralty Rules for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1979 - 1982)
• American Bar Association
• Proctor Member, the Maritime Law Association of the United States: Vice-Chair of the Committee on Practice and Procedure (1988 - 1998); Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Marine Insurance Act of 1906 (1993 -1997); co-Chair of the Study Group on Marine Insurance (the successor to the Ad Hoc Committee on the 1906 Act) (1997 - 2001); Vice-Chair of the Committee on Fisheries (1986 - 1992); originated and served as Editor of the Committee on Practice and Procedure Newsletter to MLA members (1982 - 1996)
• American Law Institute, Member of the Drafting Committee for the revision of Article 7 “Documents of Title” of the Uniform Commercial Code (2001 – 2003)
• Member of the Permanent Committee on Marine Insurance of the Comite Maritime International, which advises the International Maritime Organization (IOM) of the United Nations on maritime law issues
• Board member and counsel for the Walt Whitman Association, Camden, NJ, a non-profit organization which supports the Walt Whitman homesite in Camden, and is building an adjacent Visitor Center 

Community Involvement

• Past President, Clan Campbell Society, North America
• Trustee, Clan Campbell Educational Foundation
• Chairman, and on the Board of Directors, Monument Committee of the St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia
• Director, United States Piping Foundation
• Deacon, First Presbyterian Church, Haddonfield, New Jersey

Scholarly Activities

• Current Editor, Journal of Maritime Law & Commerce
• Current Member, Adjunct Faculty at Rutgers School of Law, teaching Admiralty, Insurance Law, and Marine Insurance; advising the Admiralty Moot Court Team
• Adjunct Professor, Admiralty Law, Widener University Law School, Wilmington, DE (1988 to 2000)

Publications and Papers

• The Law of Tug, Tow and Pilotage (3rd ed. 1994) (with Alex L. Parks), Cornell Maritime Press, Centreville, MD, and Sweet & Maxwell, London (supplement by Mr. Cattell is currently in preparation).
• Chapter 7,“Limitation of Liability,” in 29 Moore’s Federal Practice, (3rd ed. 1997 & annual updates), Matthew Bender & Co., New York; and regular contributions to “Benedict’s Maritime Bulletin”, published quarterly by Matthew Bender, on the topic of Limitation of Liability. See Comments on Limitation of Liability: Resurgence of State-Federal Conflict, 1 Benedicts Maritime Law Bulletin 36 (2003)
• Poetry and the Silver Oar, 31 J. Mar. L. & Com. 525 (2000)
• Recreational Vessel Salvage Arbitration: An Interim Report, 29 J. Mar. L. & Com. 257 (1998).
• Marine Insurance Survey: A Comparison of United States Law to the Marine Insurance Act of 1906, 20 Tulane Mar. L.J. 1 (1995).
• What Do You Do When The Marshal is Busy?: A New Use for the Mareva Injunction, 18 J. Mar. L. & Com. 263 (1987).
• “The Constitutional Power of the Judiciary to Create Admiralty Law” Presentation to the National Workshop for the United States Magistrate Judges, Federal Judicial Center, in Denver CO, July 9-11, 1997.
• A State Supported Fishing Vessel Insurance Mutual, in East Coast Fisheries Law and Policy, J. Bubier, A. Rieser, Editors, University of Southern Maine, Portland, 1987 (study conducted under a Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant from the National Marine Fisheries Service).